The Jets are at it again! Though the Bucs have offered then their 13th overall pick for Revis, the Jets keep trying to up the price. But, since Tampa appears to be the only team interested in trading for Darrelle Revis, and taking on his sky high contract demands, they have little leverage. As Kenny Rogers once sang, "you got to know when to hold 'em, and know when to fold 'em." If they're not careful, Tampa may move on.

Now, through the proxies of their private quarterback coaches, they’re taking shots at each other.

Less than a week after Sanchez’s guy, Jeff Garcia called Tebow a “distraction,” Tebow’s guy has responded.

Along with a rambling blog post titled “The Sabotage of the Quarterback,” Tebow tutor Steve Clarkson called Sanchez “fragile-minded” and said the trade from the Broncos to the Jets was done deliberately to wreck Tebow’s chances.

“I think he was purposefully sent to New York,” Clarkson said, via Mike Vorkunov of the Newark Star-Ledger. “From the standpoint: you send him to a situation where you have instability with your coach – you don’t know if he’s coming or going. You have a fragile-minded Mark Sanchez at quarterback. You stick Tim Tebow in there and you kill two birds with one stone. So if you’re Denver you’ve got to be thinking ‘We send him to New York we basically kill an opponent and at the same time Tim Tebow doesn’t come back to bite us in the proverbial butt, if you will, because he’s not going to make it out of there.’

“You send him to Jacksonville, all of a sudden he’s got that fanbase behind him and all of a sudden he’s doing what he’s done all his life, that’s win games. That would put a lot of ill-will towards your organization. There is a lot of politics that go on with it. I think Timmy was just unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Now, through the proxies of their private quarterback coaches, they’re taking shots at each other.

Less than a week after Sanchez’s guy, Jeff Garcia called Tebow a “distraction,” Tebow’s guy has responded.

Along with a rambling blog post titled “The Sabotage of the Quarterback,” Tebow tutor Steve Clarkson called Sanchez “fragile-minded” and said the trade from the Broncos to the Jets was done deliberately to wreck Tebow’s chances.

“I think he was purposefully sent to New York,” Clarkson said, via Mike Vorkunov of the Newark Star-Ledger. “From the standpoint: you send him to a situation where you have instability with your coach – you don’t know if he’s coming or going. You have a fragile-minded Mark Sanchez at quarterback. You stick Tim Tebow in there and you kill two birds with one stone. So if you’re Denver you’ve got to be thinking ‘We send him to New York we basically kill an opponent and at the same time Tim Tebow doesn’t come back to bite us in the proverbial butt, if you will, because he’s not going to make it out of there.’

“You send him to Jacksonville, all of a sudden he’s got that fanbase behind him and all of a sudden he’s doing what he’s done all his life, that’s win games. That would put a lot of ill-will towards your organization. There is a lot of politics that go on with it. I think Timmy was just unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Clarkson also said he’s fixed Tebow’s mechanical issues, which he termed “very coach-able and very minor.”

That assessment alone might undermine his claim.

LOL!!! Tebow was supposedly given the option by Denver of deciding whether he wanted to play with the Jets, or the Jaguars. Tim picked the Jets...even though he was told that he would be a back-up QB, there:

“I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, are you kidding me?’” Dilfer said of the decision by the Jets to hire Tony Sparano to run the offense in 2012. “You’re talking about a defense-centric, offense-minimalizing coach. It made you want to throw up in your mouth.” (We don’t recall Dilfer articulating that opinion at the time the hire was made. Given the vivid imagery, we likely would.)

As a result, Dilfer now believes Sanchez has become possessed by the spirits of bad football. And Dilfer fears it could be too late.

“The demons might be too loud, they might be too much to overcome,” Dilfer said. “But at least now the guy has a chance. I thought Marty was one of the best hires in a long time.”

We’re not prepared to go quite that far, especially since the best approach to the 2013 Jets would have been to hit the reset button. But since the Jets will be paying Sanchez $8.25 million whether he’s on the team or not this year, they can’t truly start over until they can get rid of Sanchez, with or without his demons.

Given that the Jets at least mentioned to the Bucs the possibility of taking Sanchez’s contract in order to get Revis, it would be a surprise if 2013 is anything other than Sanchez’s last year in New York

Smith’s decision to fire his agents also has caused him to take some criticism from those who see it as a sign that he doesn’t stick it out when the going gets tough.

“One of his perceived weaknesses is working through adversity,” an AFC personnel executive said.

One of the problems Smith is having right now, as Mike Florio noted on PFT Live, is the very fact that he doesn’t have an agent. When players are taking heat in the media, it’s often the agent who gives him good public relations advice and helps him to beat back all the hits he’s taking. Smith could use someone whose job it is to look out for his interests, and he doesn’t have that right now.